Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
Debuggers don't remove bugs. They only show them in slow motion.
Anonymous
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries